A movement is judged by what it has achieved. Below is the record, from legislative to cultural. The work is not finished. The results so far are real.
The wins, in numbers
66%
of likely Texas voters support independence (SurveyUSA, 2022).
6
TNM-backed bills on the Texas books, from HB 483 through HB 1056.
3
consecutive Texas GOP conventions carrying the independence plank.
635,452
registered supporters across all 254 Texas counties.
Critics of Texas independence often suggest the movement is a fringe project without political achievements. The record below is the response, concrete, dated, and verifiable. These are not all the wins. They are the substantive ones.
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The laws on the books
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TNM has put laws on the Texas books that change what an independent Texas already has in place. Gold and silver are now legal tender. A state-administered bullion depository safeguards hundreds of millions in precious metals. The Sovereignty Act gives Texas a mechanism to refuse unconstitutional federal action.
HB 1056 · 89TH LEGE · SIGNED JUNE 22, 2025
HB 1056, Gold and Silver as Legal Tender
HB 1056 makes gold and silver legal tender in Texas, allowing Texans to settle debts, pay taxes, and conduct commercial transactions using gold and silver. The bill is the foundational sound-money architecture for an independent Texas economy, providing the legal framework for the multi-currency monetary regime described in The Plan. TNM championed it as the session's top legislative target.
TIRA is the legislative mechanism that would put Texas independence on the ballot as a binding vote. Representative Kyle Biedermann first filed it as HB 1359 in January 2021, with Representative James White as joint author, and it has been refiled since. Every version was blocked by the Speaker's committee referral power, never voted down on the merits, and committed sponsors are in place for the 90th Legislature in 2027.
TIRA filings, three sessions
Three filings, three procedural kills. The bill has never lost on the merits.
87RHB 1359, Biedermann + WhiteDied in committee
88RHB 3596, SlatonDied in committee
90RCommitted sponsors in placePending 2027
Source: Texas Legislature Online, bill histories.
HB 483 · TEXAS HOUSE 140-1 · SIGNED JUNE 19, 2015 · OPERATIONAL 2018
Texas Bullion Depository, HB 483
After the bill's own author declared it dead, TNM mobilized the grassroots campaign that revived it. HB 483 passed the Texas House 140 to 1 and was signed on June 19, 2015. The depository opened in Leander in 2018 and now safeguards roughly $400 million in precious metals, the first state-administered bullion depository in the United States and the institutional groundwork beneath HB 1056's legal-tender provisions.
HB 483 — Texas House final passage
The most lopsided vote on any bill TNM had ever championed.
Yea140
Nay1
Source: Texas Legislature Online, HB 483 (84R), record vote on third reading.
HB 796 · HOUSE 94-53 · SENATE 19-12 · 89TH LEGE
HB 796, the Texas Sovereignty Act
Authored by Cecil Bell Jr. and backed by TNM, the Texas Sovereignty Act gives Texas a mechanism to review and refuse federal actions that exceed constitutional authority. It passed the House 94 to 53 and the Senate 19 to 12.
HB 796 — final passage
Passed both chambers of the 89th Legislature.
House — Yea94
House — Nay53
Senate — Yea19
Senate — Nay12
Source: Texas Legislature Online, HB 796 (89R), record votes.
HB 1150 · 84TH LEGE · 2015 · DRAFTED BY TNM
HB 1150, fireworks for Texas Independence Day
Drafted by TNM and passed by the 84th Legislature, HB 1150 legalized fireworks sales for Texas Independence Day and San Jacinto Day. A modest bill, but a law TNM wrote, on the books and signed by the governor.
Texas Independence Day
Texas Independence Day, March 2 · Authorized by HB 1150 (84R).
HB 1935 · SIGNED JUNE 15, 2017 · ENDED A 146-YEAR BAN
HB 1935, Bowie knife decriminalization
TNM joined the coalition that legalized the Bowie knife in Texas. Signed on June 15, 2017, it lifted a ban that had stood since 1871, 146 years on the books.
The span of the ban
146 yrs
from the 1871 Reconstruction-era ban to the 2017 repeal.
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The plank in the party
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Texas independence is now an established part of the Texas Republican Party's platform across three consecutive conventions, and the pledged bench of officials and candidates reaches every level of office in the state, from local races up to a Comptroller nominee.
MARCH 3, 2026 · 1.6M GOP VOTERS · 9-FOR-9 INCUMBENTS HELD
The March 2026 primary, roughly 1.6 million Texans
On March 3, 2026, about 1.6 million Texans, roughly three in four Republican primary voters, cast a ballot for at least one Texas First Pledge signer. Don Huffines won the Comptroller primary outright with 57.4 percent. Steve Toth unseated incumbent Congressman Dan Crenshaw in CD-2. Nine incumbent state representatives held their seats.
2020 RPT CONVENTION · PLANK 65 · 93% OF DELEGATES
Texas GOP Platform, 2020 Plank 65
The 2020 Texas Republican Party convention adopted Plank 65, affirming that Texas retains the right to secede, passed by 93 percent of delegates. The first time the dominant party in Texas put independence in its platform. The floor fight had begun in 2016, when an independence resolution fell just two votes short.
Plank 65, the floor vote
93%
of Texas GOP delegates voted to affirm the right of Texas to secede.
Texas GOP Platform, the referendum plank (2022, strengthened 2024 as Plank 203)
In 2022, the Republican Party of Texas went further and adopted a dedicated independence-referendum plank, Plank 225, calling on the Legislature to put Texas independence to a statewide vote, passed by a supermajority of delegates. The 2024 convention adopted the stronger Plank 203, naming the independence-referendum bill a legislative priority. Texas independence is now an established part of the dominant Texas political party's platform across three consecutive conventions.
The plank, convention to convention
Each convention has gone further than the last.
2020Plank 65 — right to secede affirmed93%
2022Plank 225 — referendum demandedSupermajority
2024Plank 203 — legislative priorityReaffirmed
Source: Republican Party of Texas, platform documents (2020, 2022, 2024).
LIVE COUNT · STATEWIDE TO LOCAL · APOLITICAL
Texas First Pledge, 257 officials and candidates
The Texas First Pledge commits signers to put Texas first in their votes. It is a permanent, apolitical commitment, not a candidate endorsement. More than 257 officials and candidates have signed it, from statewide offices down to local races, a broad cross-faction coalition.
Pledged bench, statewide to local
257
elected officials and candidates publicly pledged to put Texas first.
The infrastructure of a modern movement. Supporters in every Texas county, demonstrated capacity to qualify ballot questions by hand, and a county-by-county fabric for converting support into political force.
LIVE · ALL 254 COUNTIES · FIVE INTAKE PATHS
635,452 supporters across all 254 counties
TNM's 635,452 supporters, accumulated over the life of the movement and counted through five paths (petition, in-person, member, donor, and volunteer signups), are the broad base the movement organizes from, and the clearest measure of how many Texans want a vote on independence. The Let Texas Decide petition is one of those paths.
2023 PETITION DRIVE · DELIVERED DECEMBER 11 · 41,000+ OVER THRESHOLD
139,456 signatures for a primary ballot question
TNM's 2023 petition drive put up to a thousand certified circulators in nineteen-plus cities and collected 139,456 signatures, more than 41,000 past the legal threshold. On December 11, the movement delivered eleven boxes to Republican Party of Texas headquarters. The party rejected it on a technicality, but exceeding the threshold by tens of thousands of signatures proved the organizing capacity is real.
2023 GOP primary ballot petition
Delivered 41,000 signatures over the statutory threshold.
Signatures delivered139,456
Legal threshold97,709
Texas Election Code § 172.088 · Delivered to RPT headquarters December 11, 2023.
COUNTY-BY-COUNTY · CONVERSATION-BY-CONVERSATION
Relational organizing across all 254 counties
The movement's local backbone is relational organizing: coordinators and organizers working their own counties, moving neighbors from supporter to committed Texian one real conversation at a time. It is the structure that turns a broad base of support into organized political force, county by county.
Counties under active organizing
254
every county in Texas, mapped to a coordinator or local team.
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The culture moved
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From single-digit polling to a majority of Texas voters. From the Alamo controversy to a published canon and a national newsweekly cover. The center of gravity on Texas independence moved, and TNM moved it.
SURVEYUSA · JULY 2022 · FIVETHIRTYEIGHT A+ POLLSTER
66 percent of Texans would vote for independence
An A-plus-rated SurveyUSA poll found that 66 percent of likely Texas voters would vote for Texas independence. From single digits when TNM was founded to two-thirds of the electorate, the question has moved from the fringe to the mainstream.
When the $450 million plan to reimagine the Alamo threatened to move the Cenotaph and reframe the shrine, TNM fought it for years with testimony, rallies, and monthly memorial marches. The State Republican Executive Committee repudiated the plan's champion 57 to 1, the Cenotaph stays where it stands, and the plan was killed.
The monthly memorial march
A TNM memorial wreath at the chapel doors, the Alamo.
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018 · SBOE UNANIMOUS · HEROIC DEFENDERS RETAINED
Defending the heroes of the Alamo at the SBOE
When a state committee recommended striking the words 'heroic defenders' from seventh-grade Texas history standards, TNM mobilized a contact campaign within days. The State Board of Education voted the proposal down unanimously.
State Board of Education, September 6, 2018
15–0
the Board unanimously voted to keep 'heroic defenders' in Texas history.
NEWSWEEK COVER 2024 · 22 COUNTRIES · 60+ ON-AIR APPEARANCES
Sustained mainstream media coverage
Texas independence has been covered on the cover of Newsweek, on Fox, CNBC, NPR, the BBC, France 24, and across the international press in twenty-two countries. Daniel Miller has done more than sixty broadcast appearances since the movement's early years. The press treats the story as a legitimate political phenomenon, even when individual outlets are critical of its positions.
A selection of outlets
Plus Newsweek (cover, 2024), The Wall Street Journal, France 24, NPR, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and more.
Daniel Miller's TEXIT, published by Defiance Press in 2018, is the canonical book-length exposition of the modern case for Texas independence. Released on San Jacinto Day, the anniversary of the battle that won Texas its independence.
TEXIT, by Daniel Miller
Defiance Press · April 21, 2018 · San Jacinto Day.
DAILY REPORTING · 1,430+ ARTICLES · DECADE-PLUS RUN
The Texian Partisan, the movement's flagship publication
The Texian Partisan carries the Texas independence case in the movement's own voice. A full editorial news operation with more than fourteen hundred articles across a decade-plus run, it is the movement's cultural infrastructure for breaking news, op-eds, and rebuttals.
Texian Partisan
1,430+ articles across a decade-plus run · texianpartisan.com.
TEXIAN.APP · LAUNCHED MARCH 5, 2026 · THE MEMBER ENGINE
TEXIAN, the member platform
TEXIAN is the platform that turns supporters into committed Texians. Every new member records the Texian Declaration on signup, a formal oath embedded in the membership flow. Each member draws an automated mission sequence, a unique referral code with full attribution, and a county-level assignment to the local organizing structure. The platform launched March 5, 2026, two days after the primary that proved the bench.
TEXIAN, the member platform
texian.app · Membership, the Declaration, missions, and county organizing in one place.
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